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A review by winterreader40
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
5.0
This was the very first fantasy book I every read when I was young, now that I'm older my love hasn't changed, I cringe a bit more at the patriarchal nonsense that Menolly has to deal with in her home hold than I did as a teenager(30 years ago), but I still love her character and how strong she is.
Menolly has been assisting the old harper for the last year or so before his death because he could no longer play, when he passes away her father asks every single person that can hold even a bit of a tune if they will sing the deathsong until he's forced to admit that his daughter will have to do it. She also needs to teach the young their teaching ballads until the new harper arrives but she is not allowed to write her own music on pain of a beating and no one must know that a girl did these things when the new harper arrives.
Things progress until eventually she runs away to live in a cliff face where she impresses nine of the mythical(or not) fire lizards.
This is a short whirlwind of a story, but the pacing is good, the world building is very localized which is I think one of the reasons everyone suggests reading these in pub order, but I'm glad this was my first.
Menolly has been assisting the old harper for the last year or so before his death because he could no longer play, when he passes away her father asks every single person that can hold even a bit of a tune if they will sing the deathsong until he's forced to admit that his daughter will have to do it. She also needs to teach the young their teaching ballads until the new harper arrives but she is not allowed to write her own music on pain of a beating and no one must know that a girl did these things when the new harper arrives.
Things progress until eventually she runs away to live in a cliff face where she impresses nine of the mythical(or not) fire lizards.
This is a short whirlwind of a story, but the pacing is good, the world building is very localized which is I think one of the reasons everyone suggests reading these in pub order, but I'm glad this was my first.